Improvement in mosquito net-holder



CHARLES MESSENGER.,

dor eLEvELANn/onio.

Lars Patent No. 106,386, @ma August 16, 1870. I

IMPROVEMENI'.1N Mo'sQUITo NET-HOLDER.

The Schedule referred tovin these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES MESSENGER, of Cleveland, in' the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improve- Aments in all/Iosquito Net-Holder and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and complete description of the same, reference being had to the accomprltlnyling drawing making a part ot' this specification, in w 1c 1 Figures 1 and 2 are side views of the holder.

Figure 3, a top view ot the same.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

. This invention relates to an arrangement of rods supported upon `upright posts or standards, attached to the four corners ot' a bedstead. To said rods are hung the curtains or mosquito-net, as hereinafter more fully setforth.4

A represents a standard, the l'oxver end of which is secured ina stay, B. Said stay is attached to a corner of a bedstead, and holds the standard in an upright position, as shown. Y

To each corner of the bed is attached a similar stay, from which proceeds a rod or standard.

C, tig. 3, is an adjustable stay, securedjto the standard by a set-screw, D.

From the stay C'projeets a pair of rings, E, having alight-angled relation to each other. In said rings are inserted the ends of the horizontal rods F, extending from one standard to the other, lengthwise the bedstead, and transversely therewith; saidrods are -supported' the horizontal rods referred to.

I held in the rings by set-screws G, whereby they are adjusted, as circumstances may require.

As above said,'this arrangement of standards and rods is intended to' support mosquito curtains or hangings around a bed, for the protection of those occupying the saine, the application of which is as follows:

A stay, B, is secured to each corner of the bedstead, and therein inserted a standard, A, whereby are The height of the rods above the bed may be adj usted by the stays C, which may be raised or lowered ou the standards,

and secured at any one particular place by-means ot' the set-screws-above described. A

lThe standards and rods constitute a frame, to which the curtains or hangings may be easily-and conveniently attached in any such way as the nature ofthe material may suggest.

The frame, when not required for the purpose specilied, can be readily taken down, and the several parts stowed away forfuture use.

Claim.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein described mosquito net-holder, consisting of the stay B, Vstandards A,-adjustable stay C, having rings E, and horizontal rods F, all arranged in the manner described, for the purpose specified.

` CHARLES MESSENGER.

Witnesses:

J. H. BURRIDGE, D. L. HUMPHREY. 

